In the summer of 1984, Julie Gibbs, an active, healthy young woman, went to the doctor with joint pain.
Although they premiered only 19 years apart, the contrast between Bela Bartok’s “Concerto for Orchestra” and George Gershwin’s “Concerto in F” — the two works the Las Vegas Philharmonic performed Saturday — is striking.
An original pantomime version of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” — you know, slapstick, cross dressing, song, acrobats, talking to the audience — seemed the perfect fit for the British National Theatre of America. The people behind the playhouse are British, where pantomime originated. And the group’s previous production — “Durty Nelly’s Lullaby,” a two-person dance drama skillfully molded into a poignant love story — proved the group knows how to work a stage.
Editor’s note: This is the final installment of a weekly feature in which the Las Vegas Review-Journal asks 20 questions of a UNLV football player. Today’s Q&A is with defensive end/linebacker Jason Beauchamp, a senior graduate school student from Steele Canyon High School near San Diego.
Rod Dixon was a world-class marathoner in his prime, but his running career had humble beginnings.
Several candidates for UNLV’s athletic director position have bubbled to the surface, but with no local names among them, two sources with knowledge of the search said Monday.
Dan Hardy knows many are questioning his status as the No. 1 contender to Georges St. Pierre’s UFC welterweight title.
Standing behind the same podium where quarterback Tim Tebow delivered his now-famous promise 14 months and 21 wins ago, coach Urban Meyer vowed Monday to be at Florida “as long as they’ll have me.”
Steve and Elaine Wynn, in a joint statement released on Monday, announced they have reached “an amicable settlement” in one of the most expensive divorces on record.
CARSON CITY — Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto said Monday that she would consider “stepping out” of the prosecution of Republican Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki if his lawyers expressed concerns over her husband holding a fundraiser for a Democrat seeking his job.
CARSON CITY — A report released Monday by the Nevada Supreme Court shows judges around the state are busier than ever, handling more than 400,000 new nontraffic cases in 2009 than the year before.
Las Vegas spine surgeon Mark Kabins pleaded guilty to a felony Monday after federal prosecutors offered him a deal that allows him to avoid prison time.
Prentice Marshall was the triggerman, Adrian Pena drove the getaway car, and Las Vegas police officer Trevor Nettleton was the unfortunate victim who opened his garage door just as the two were headed down his street early Thursday, according to the suspects’ arrest reports.
• The television station that airs “Live with Regis and Kelly” was incorrect in the Living section of Sunday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal. The show airs from 9 to 10 a.m. weekdays on KVCW-TV, Channel 33.
WASHINGTON — Doug Hampton, the Nevada man whose wife had an affair with Sen. John Ensign, said he discovered the relationship after intercepting a text message around Christmas in 2007.
RENO — Animal protection advocates are asking a federal judge to block the government’s planned roundup of thousands of wild mustangs in Nevada next month, saying the helicopter-aided operations are illegal because they “traumatize, injure and kill” some of the animals.
WASHINGTON — Two Senate leaders trying to steer a pair of President Barack Obama’s high-stakes initiatives through Congress are being dogged by re-election worries, and it’s not clear whether their legislative prominence will help or hurt them.
The houses in the Berkley Square neighborhood, which was recently added to the National Register of Historic Places, are distinctive but not showy. At the time they were built, though, they represented progress for Las Vegas’ black community, who had struggled for decades with segregation and deplorable housing.
A woman was found dead in the entryway of a burning home at the western edge of Summerlin late Sunday, Clark County Fire Department officials said.
The brains behind an illegal voter-registration incentive program that led to felony charges against ACORN, a national grass-roots community organizing group, was sentenced Monday to three years of probation.
After seven years with no formal evaluation process, Henderson’s top officials will start getting annual reviews again as part of a complete overhaul of the way the city tracks job performance.
A coroner’s inquest has been scheduled to review the case of a man who died Nov. 1 while Las Vegas police officers were attempting to subdue him.
I arrived early at the Lloyd George U.S. Courthouse on Monday to beat the crowd.